God, this is the kind of friend you are!

This is the kind of Friend you are

Without making me realize my soul's anguished history

you slip into my house at night

and while I am sleeping

you silently carry off all my suffering

and sordid past

in your beautiful hands

                                      Hafiz

God this is the kind of friend you are

we come into life thinking of what we will do for you

and yet

after we untangle ourselves

from the messes of our own making

after we work our way

through the ooze and slime and old decay (Lewis)

of our lives

the scattered refuse

of fear and failure

and come again to the light

into the realm of grace

we realize

that all peace

all we are

It is all You